Art
This book tries to capture the involvement of the audience in informed discussion or exchange of opinions about a particular work of art, or specific issues. Also to address the four basic questions usually asked: 1. What should I look for? What are the key features in a Picasso, Rembrandt, Raphael or a Turner. 2. What is going on? What is the story? Who is Hercules? What is the Nativity? Who is that girl with a broken wheel? Who is the man abducting the woman who looks like a tree? Does that b…
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- Full title :Art / Robert Cumming.
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This book tries to capture the involvement of the audience in informed discussion or exchange of opinions about a particular work of art, or specific issues. Also to address the four basic questions usually asked: 1. What should I look for? What are the key features in a Picasso, Rembrandt, Raphael or a Turner. 2. What is going on? What is the story? Who is Hercules? What is the Nativity? Who is that girl with a broken wheel? Who is the man abducting the woman who looks like a tree? Does that big red square mean anything? 3. What is its value? Am I looking an ten pounds, ten thousand pounds, one million, ten million? 4. Is it any good? And in front of a pile of bricks or an unmade bed, am I being taken for a ride?
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Dorling Kindersley
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:512 pages : : color illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1405310545, 9781405310543, 0756613582, 9780756613587
- oclc:ocm68766133
- LC Classification:N31
- Dewey Decimal:701.1
Table of Contents
Introducing art: What is art? -- Media and materials -- History of art: early art 3000 BCE-1300 CE) -- Gothic and early renaissance c1300-1500 -- High renaissance and mannerism c1500-1600 -- Baroque era c.1600-1700 -- From rococo to neoclassicism (1700-1800) -- Romantic and academic art c.1800-1900 -- Modernism c.1900-1970 -- Comtemporary art 1970-
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